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The Great Impression
02:34
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Every summer I dream
Dream the strangest of dreams
You were here by my side
For a while so it seemed
In the Valley of Kings
There's no way to escape
Melting clocks in the sun
Wish you knew you made
The greatest impression on me
You made the greatest impression on me
You made
Every winter I fall
Fall back into your bed
You were on your way home
I was sleeping instead
You're the lake that stays frozen
Every time that I wake
I'm still under your spell
Wish you knew you made
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Fingerprints
03:40
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Packed my bags
To run away from you
Took my chance
What's a boy to do
But there's something in the mirror
Something that I never saw
Cos your memory lingers long after you're gone
Cut my ties
I guess a touch too soon
Space and time
Is not enough with you
Cos there's something in the mirror
Something that I wish I saw
Cos your memory lingers long after
Your fingerprints - are all over me
They're all over me - your fingerprints
All I can do - remember the way it felt with you
Your fingerprints are all over me
Your nail marks still
Fresh across my back
Too hard to tell
The flesh from fact
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Tongue - tied
Talking to my feet
When there's nothing better than self-defeat
I stop - stall
Try to stand tall
When whatever I say means nothing at all
I walk
Through all the steps in my head
It made more sense in my head
Plain and simple I can't keep climbing
I try to find the words but they won't surrender
So I lie to you and say that I don't remember
Singing like a hurricane
Dancing like Fred Astaire
Walking like a young John Wayne
I'm talking like I'm falling downstairs
Talking like I'm falling downstairs
Stut-ter
Mutter to myself
That you can't quote something from someone else
I duck - swerve
Lose my nerve
It's on the tip of my tongue so just give me the word and
I'll walk
Through all the steps in my head
Makes more sense in my head
plain and simple I can't keep climbing
I try to find the words but they won't surrender
So I lie to you and say that I don't remember
Singing like a hurricane
Dancing like Fred Astaire
Walking like a young John Wayne
I'm talking like I'm falling down
I'm talking like I'm falling downstairs
Singing like a hurricane
Dancing like Fred Astaire
Walking like a young John Wayne
I'm talking like I'm falling
I'm talking like I'm falling downstairs
I'm talking like I'm falling downstairs
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China
04:41
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She's as distant as the winter sun
More consistent than the beat of a drum
All this time she's been hiding her weakness away from me
Then one day I touched a nerve by mistake
Pressed too hard and she started to shake
Every time that I go there I know there's so much she can take
Before she breaks
She breaks like China
She breaks like China
The longer we take - the bigger we break when we find out
I keep a close eye on the way I act
Even when I start to see all the cracks
I give nothing away but expect her to stay with me
When she worked out where my weakness lay
She wouldn't stop until I gave way
Every time that she goes there she know there's so much I can take
Before I break
I break like China
I break like China
The longer we take - the bigger we break when we find out
The stronger we act - the longer we crack
There's only so much we can take till we start to break
We're constructed from the same design
With a heart that makes no sense to the mind
We can keep it together but pressure and time have their way
For the things we try to keep inside
Find their way out in the dark of the night
All it takes is the tiniest touch and there's only so much
Before we break
We break like China
We break like China
The longer we take - the bigger we break when we find out
China
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5. |
Love Less Love
04:14
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So by now
You should have figured out
That for a while
You're better without me
So be brave
You're not the one to blame
I'll take the hit
You take the fame and all that comes with it
Even if we try to take away the mess we made
It took so long to figure out
Who pulled the trigger - Who pulled out
It's love - love - love - love
It always equals out
It's love - love - love - love
I hope you work it out
You should know
I wasn't built for this
A miserable heart
Is one thing I'll never miss
So if I call you late at night
Don't answer the phone
Lie like you're sleeping
You're better off alone
Cos even when we tried to take away the mess we made
It took so long to figure out
Who held the trigger - Who held out
It's love - love - love - love
It always equals out
It's love - love - love
Fooling around is fun for a while
Won't last forever when there's no love to spare
Cos we're going nowhere
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Ghost
04:54
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Like a ghost in the night
She is haunting me
Taunting me
Try as I might
I can't live without
I can't sleep without her
She keeps me awake - I know when she fakes it
She says what she feels - lies to conceal her heart
I know she knows that I know she knows
That I know she knows that I know
I see what she sees and she sees what I see
And that scares her more than it scares me
Like a ghost in the night
She caresses me
Undresses me
Try as I might
I can't live without
I can't sleep without her
She keeps me awake - I give and she takes
She tries to conceal - she'll never reveal herself
She's like a ghost
She keeps me awake - I know when she fakes it
She says what she feels - lies to conceal her heart
She keeps me awake - I give and she takes
She tries to conceal - she'll never reveal herself
Like a ghost in the night
She's like a ghost in the night
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Shoot Straight
03:02
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The heart is the softest target
So be careful where you aim
Be mindful of the matters
That contaminate the veins
The heart is the softest target
So be careful what you say
Be wary of the details
That can lead the heart astray
Shoot straight (Aim)
Don't let me fall too far - don't make me wait
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Mary
04:02
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Mary
I don't know what to do
Mary
Cos every time I look away from you
You're all I see
Mary
If the past shapes the present then presently I would be living it differently now
The upside of downtime to think without thought is no better than getting distraught
I'll join them to beat them to keep them away from the things that I cling to the most
I'm done moving on and I'll leave if you stay so please... please
Mary
I don't know what to do
Mary
Cos every time I look away from you
You're all I see
Mary
Why don't you save me
Why don't you let me be or let me go
I'm begging on my knees forget me please
Or forgive me so
Oh Mary
If failure's success then I'm keeping it hidden to show what I now should confess
So sacred it seems I'm so scared of these dreams that keep circling around in my head
I pretend that we started a thing that could end and begin as we'd want it to be
But nothing's more costly than something for free so please... please
If love is blind I don't know what I'll find in you
I don't know what you see in me
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Hurt Me
04:23
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Wake up by my side
Someone else is sleeping
So I guess my emptiness was never one to leave me all alone
There's promises
Ones that are for keeping
She won't talk so you won't know the ones I keep from you
Hurt me
Good souls like you don't deserve assholes like me
Hurt me
Why don't you hurt me
Good souls like you don't deserve assholes like me
Wake up by your side
Someone else is sleeping
So I guess my emptiness was never one for leaving me alone
I had the choice
So suffer I should
I won't talk so you won't know the pain I keep from you
Hurt me
Oh hurt me
Cos a good soul like you - should go and hurt an asshole like me
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I started something I couldn't finish
I couldn't leave my house for days
Locked in the basement all the lights off
Burn the candles both ways
Until it grew unlike before
A bit too big to ignore
I started something I couldn't finish
And it wouldn't leave me alone
I started something I couldn't finish
Such a foolish thing to do
Such simplicity or duplicity
When you don't know who is who?
There was peace for a while
No police that's not my style
I started something I couldn't finish
And it wouldn't leave me alone
It doesn't matter what your friends say
Doesn't matter what your folks say
You know when you're through
It doesn't matter what your friends say
Doesn't matter what they all say
You know when you're through
I started something I couldn't finish
I couldn't leave my house for days
Locked in the basement all the lights out
And it wouldn't leave me alone
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11. |
The Lost Ones
03:12
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Will I always be the lost one
Will I always wonder why
One foot forward never felt so good or felt so right
You won't find me for a while
Fingers crossed I'll find the right way
Compass always points to north
I've been circling round the same two spots for far too long
You won't find me for a while
The search goes on...
Falling further than I've been before
Found a few who knew the way
Looking backwards for directions for god knows where
You won't find us for a while
We will always be the lost ones
We will always wonder why
One foot forward never felt so good or felt so right
You won't find us for a while
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Fade From View
05:43
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The only way I knew to conquer someone like you
Destroy all in my way the gods decide my fate
Empires come and go
They rise and then they fall
You will never fade from view
We hibernate for days while winter has its way
Freezes what stays still and melts what's left behind
Seasons come and go
For reasons we don't know
You will never fade from view
Comets come and go
Burn bright and then don't show
You will never fade from view
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